Questions & Ethics: Should churches manipulate for spontaneous baptisms?

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Russell Moore

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🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Russell Moore answers the questions: Are spontaneous baptisms good for the Church? A church recently made the news for their guidelines for spontaneous baptisms. How should pastors and church leaders think through this issue? Read a full transcript here. photo credit: Mars Hill Church via photopin cc The post Questions & Ethics: Should churches manipulate for spontaneous baptisms? appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.8	Welcome to questions and ethics with Russell Moore, where we apply the Gospel of
0:46.7	the Kingdom to cultural issues and your questions about the Christian life.
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0:56.3	Hello, I'm Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and
1:00.3	you're listening to Questions and Ethics, and this is the program where we take an issue that you're struggling
1:05.4	with and look at it through the lens of the Kingdom of Christ. Our question
1:09.1	today is one that I'm being asked about a lot right now because of some press reports about a mega
1:16.0	church where apparently there is a time of spontaneous baptisms and at least some
1:22.4	media reports are saying that this church is planting people in the congregation to walk forward during the invitation in order to be baptized,
1:33.3	in order to present the illusion of momentum
1:37.6	in that invitation so that that will kind of
1:40.1	break the ice and free people up to be able to come for baptism who are needing to be baptized.
1:47.0	Now, I don't know whether or not in this church's case that's really what's happening.
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